Even with the fast animations the combat is still too slow.
Pole axe spell:
It's a nice animation, I can tell the artist did a lot of work on it, the axe fades in, spins around, slices the goblin and knocks him over.
Someone spent quite a bit of time getting it looking perfect.
I cast level 3 pole axe twice at the start of most combats. I'm seeing the same animation 6 times in 20 seconds. I've seen that animation at least 1,000 times, even on high speed animation it takes far too long.
2 ways to fix it, an easy way and a hard way.
The easy way is if the developers (or modders?) make a very high speed option.
The best solution would be an automatic speed option, the first 10 times you see an animation (example, your newest Rage spell) it shows it normal speed, the next 10 times at high speed, anytime after that is at very high speed. I don't that that could be done by modding though.
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